How to set up local AWS Secrets Manager Docker container for local testing purposes?

Question

I'm looking to set up a local Docker instance of AWS Secrets Manager.

I've been scouring the web for an image or anything of the sort that I can use. I can only find documentation for AWS ECS secrets management.

Does anyone have any experience with setting up AWS Secrets Manager for local testing through Docker? Thanks!

Answer 1

Good question!
You could run localstack [1] inside a docker container. It mocks some of the AWS services for testing purposes. AWS Secrets Manager is supported at http://localhost:4584 by default.
There are some useful blog posts covering localstack. [2][3]

However, I could not find any blog post covering AWS Secrets Manager on localstack. I guess you have to try it out yourself.

References

[1] https://github.com/localstack/localstack
[2] https://medium.com/@andyalky/developing-aws-apps-locally-with-localstack-7f3d64663ce4
[3] https://medium.com/pareture/localstack-for-local-aws-dev-22775e483e3d

Answer 2

You can setup local AWS SecretManager inside LocalStack using the following command:

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 secretsmanager create-secret --name my_secret --secret-string [{"my_uname":"username","my_pwd":"password"}]

Output:

{
    "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:000000000000:secret:my_secret-denusf",
    "Name": "my_secret",
    "VersionId": "e168cdf1-5c94-493d-bafd-791779a7515d"
}